"The username violates our guidelines"

Anonymous
2021-12-28T21:56:04+00:00

I tried commenting on an article for the first time today. When i went to sign up and agree to the terms a window said in red letters "The username violates our guidelines"...

my username is my first and last name so I don't understand why I'm seeing this. There is no option to dispute on screen https://account.microsoft.com/profile?ocid=msedgntp

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  1. Anonymous
    2022-02-20T23:57:54+00:00

    Yes as we have been saying, it's some software bug regarding old accounts. Nothing on purpose or anything.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-02-20T21:41:41+00:00

    Nope. Microsoft and Facebook discriminate against all. I get it too. My gf got blocked by facebook for spamming because she said she liked a friend's recipe. YouTube just deletes your comments. Copy you YouTube comment to clipboard before posting. Wait a minute. Then edit to add a period. If you get =an error that means google deleted you comment. Paste again, and play with wording. After a few dozen tries you might get posted. For example, replace the word white with misspelling of caucasian. Stuff like that. They are all idiots.

    People think it only conservatives because Dems too stupid to be grilling them on thier stuff being censured when they have them before congress...plus conservatives do lie more.

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-02-20T20:33:03+00:00

    I definitely think it has something to do with microsoft not being able to handle multiple platforms. Not a big deal, but I doubt my real name violates much of anything. I'm getting my xbox screen name when posting these comments, but that's modern compared to msn and hotmail

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-02-20T20:26:02+00:00

    Same thing here, I highly doubt I offended anyone with my msn account, I can't even remember posting a comment. Maybe in the eighties or nineties

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-02-20T20:17:59+00:00

    Thank you very much for the detailed explanation on how to solve this bug. As for suggesting this may not occur on a desktop with Edge browser, yes it's happening to me in this scenario.

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